SUSE Job Trends in England

SUSE Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SUSE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 722 647 762
Rank change year-on-year -75 +115 -2
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 5 7 20
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.005% 0.016% 0.027%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.086% 0.11% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 13
10th Percentile - £38,500 -
25th Percentile - £49,750 £24,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,265 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.25% +10.00% -16.32%
75th Percentile £61,250 £64,375 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,750 £77,750 £57,250
UK median annual salary £26,265 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -52.25% +10.00% -16.32%

All Operating Systems
England

SUSE falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,837 6,595 9,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.35% 15.13% 12.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,427 4,396 6,931
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,938 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% -9.52%

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SUSE relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

SUSE job vacancy trend in England

SUSE
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SUSE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SUSE

SUSE
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SUSE in England over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SUSE in England

SUSE
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE within the England region over the 6 months to 4 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands - 3 £26,265 -
Midlands - 3 £26,265 -
North West - 1 £57,500 - 1
North of England - 1 £57,500 - 1
London - 1 £67,500 -
SUSE
UK

SUSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
1 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SAP HANA
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Graduate
2 3 (60.00%) Graduate Support Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Graduate Systems Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Linux Support
2 3 (60.00%) Linux Support Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Systems Support
2 3 (60.00%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) CentOS
2 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (40.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (60.00%) Ticket Management
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Change Advisory Board
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) HP ASE
1 1 (20.00%) VCAP
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Broadcom
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Zerto